Livetoride wrote:You guys up for same challenge for 2013, should back into my commuting next year

maybe...had a bit too much time off due to injuries this year....and not doing 5 day commuting weeks has hurt me too

yet to decide whether I commit fully or not for next year

I'll do it. January will be a bit light on. And if I'll do it, gretaboy won't be able to hold himself back...

hahahaha ....I was just thinking this morning as I was riding I need to worry less about how many k's I try to do each day/week/month...does it really matter I was telling myself...the other part of the brain was saying "damm right it matters"

lost around 9 weeks just through my accident, holidays and broken thumb...so I reckon I have at least another 2-4 thousand k's potential in me, minimum..if I ride all the potential days I can, and thats just commuting

I can't do the challenge in earnest next year. My wife is going to go back to work for 3 days/wk from Jan for the foreseeable future, which is good because I'll at least get 2 days commuting in a week instead on none, but bad for my position in the leader board .

I had a quick look at the Strava challenge and it is non-obvious how to start one, let alone determine if it is possible to just count rides where the commute flag is set.

I reckon that Endomondo is probably better as we know it works and you can definitely just select "cycling, transport" and the challenge will only count rides marked as such.

You do not have to run the Endomondo (battery draining) app. I just use the Strava app on my 'droid and then export a gpx from Strava and upload it to Endomondo using their web page, not app. This probably cannot be done on smart phones though - the gpx import file selection in Endomondo 'droid app is broken and the iPhone doesn't have a proper file system. Failing all that, you can just enter everything manually.

simonn wrote:I had a quick look at the Strava challenge and it is non-obvious how to start one, let alone determine if it is possible to just count rides where the commute flag is set.I reckon that Endomondo is probably better as we know it works and you can definitely just select "cycling, transport" and the challenge will only count rides marked as such.

Fair enough, if Endomondo ticks the boxes, that's cool. Just thought there just might be a way to consolidate - I currently run both Cyclemeter (for historical reasons) and Endomondo (for the challenge) on the iPhone for every ride, and am thinking about tinkering with Strava, but running three apps simultaneously seems a bit of a pain, and manual entry doesn't do it for me...Battery life isn't that much an issue for me, about 15% drain per hour on the iPhone..

I'm in for next year - I like the Endo system as I Upload manually as I only have a bike computer (velo 5). Using an android app to upload is now possible so I wouldn't mind but for me Endo seem easy to use and my kids like tracking the "burgers burnt" that dad has done. (I think it their way of trying to get to McDonalds more often )

Still hoping to break the 5000km commuting for the year but am just about out of energy and time.

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